The EU and UK pledged to reduce food waste, in line with the UN’s goal to halve global food waste by 2030. With most (approximately 53%) of total food waste in European countries occurring in homes, ...

Keeping food waste out of landfills provides climate and other environmental benefits, and Vermont requires residents to divert these materials to better management pathways. With other states ...

Pressures such as population growth, urbanization, and land degradation are straining the global agrifood system, the network connecting all steps of the food supply chain from growing crops in the ...

Once a little girl roaming the vibrant fields of an organic lettuce farm in Kealakekua, Hawai‘i, Ella Kilpatrick Kotner learned how to live in harmony with the land before most kids learn how to tie ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Danielle Nierenberg is a researcher and writer on global food systems. Over the years, the conversations we’ve been having about ...

Food waste has often been regarded as an inevitable by-product of today’s food systems, but tackling it is emerging as a critical lever for climate change mitigation, improved resource use and ...

You've probably seen it before—leftover food that could have been used, just being thrown away at a restaurant. It happens more often than you think. Every year, restaurants generate millions of tons ...

Each year, Australian households discard about 2.5 million tonnes of food. Most (73%) of this food waste ends up in landfill. This is costly and contributes to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, ...

Researchers find microplastics can persist in compost, leaching into agricultural soils Plastic contamination should be a central concern in efforts to deal with food waste, which campaigners call one ...